Cross-dressing in Connecticut with tiresome Joe

oh, yeah... i think william greider has definitely figured it all out...

I suspect Karl and Joe have made a deal. A back-scratching understanding, you might say.

Karl says to Senator Joe: We will help you beat Ned in the general election and you will agree to cross over and sign up with the Republicans--if we need your vote to retain our majority in the Senate.

Joe says: It's a deal--but only if my fellow Democrats make a sincere effort to support Ned and defeat me. Otherwise, if the Dems go limp and sell out Ned, I have to stay loyal.

Karl: Fair enough. How do we make the terms of the deal clear to everyone without announcing it?

Joe: You very publically dump the no-name Republican candidate in the race. I start attacking the patriotism of anti-war Democrats like Bernie Sanders, who's running for senator in Vermont. We both cut up Ned Lamont with the same vicious slurs--portraying him as a fellow traveler for al Quaeda.

Karl: Excellent. I have a hit group called Vets for Freedom, who will start tossing the mud.

Joe: My Democratic pals will understand completely. This is the kind of bipartisan civility I've always sought in politics.

too far-fetched, you say...?

Some Democrats--I hear this second-hand--are flirting with this "go limp" strategy. Others are arguing intensely that the party has no option except to put all of its weight behind the party nominee and, in effect, make damn sure Ned wins. Above all, they have to demonstrate their commitment to Lamont followers, those new rank-and-file forces who harbor deep skepticism about the party's timid leadership.

If Democrats fail to demonstrate their genuineness, they may very well create a much more serious problem for the party down the road. A Lieberman victory, regardless of how it occurs, would encourage the rebels and insurgents from within the party to skip party primaries as bogus events and run their challenge candidates in the general elections--just like wayward Joe.

These rebel challengers might not win, but they could rally enough dissenting voters to bring down a lot of incumbent Dems. Joe tossed party identity out the window; why shouldn't they?

This would be a far bloodier path to reinvigorating the Democratic party--bringing it down in order to rebuild it--but some reform agitators have noticed that it works. Fratricidal bloodletting was how the Republican Right got its groove and gained its power over the other party.

not if you take into account that some of the dem power brokers are already talking about how too much emphasis is being put on supporting lamont...

Lamont v. Lieberman is a carnival sideshow, a titilating [sic] and distracting spectacle. Rove is the carnival barker. So ignore the hoopla and keep moving on down the midway, folks.

'scuse ME...?!?!?! it's far from a friggin' carnival sideshow... lamont MUST win connecticut... and, yes, there are other must-win races too, but the lamont-lieberman contest is first among equals...

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